Nameserver Problem
Tony Nelson
tonynelson at georgeanelson.com
Fri Mar 30 02:40:21 UTC 2007
At 6:31 AM +0800 3/30/07, Ed Greshko wrote:
>Tony Nelson wrote:
>
>> Tim -- is this also a solution for my problem? I have set up a local
>> server (on CentOS 4.4) to test a replacement for a real server with a
>> domain name (running RH 7.2). The local server should always resolve that
>> domain name to itself, so as to properly test itself and not the real
>> server. Just adding lines to /etc/hosts was insufficient, probably because
>> DNS queries (dig, nslookup) still see the real server. I'm trying to avoid
>> really understanding BIND at this time, as I have plenty of other issues to
>> deal with, and the new server, when deployed, won't need this testing DNS
>> configuration.
>
>If you don't want to understand named and how to configure it then try the
>following.
>
>1. Remove the /etc/resolv.conf
>2. Create a /etc/hosts file that contains all of the information needed and
>that includes all of the servers that host may need to contact for testing
>purposes.
>3. Edit the /etc/nsswitch and change the "hosts" line to have "files" only.
Thanks, but that wasn't the question, and it raises its own difficult
questions. I'll wait for Tim.
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